A 2022 astronaut photo shows a thick blanket of snow covering Yellowstone Lake, transforming the frozen body of water into a ...

How can boiling water springs emerge so close to the shores of a Mediterranean island? This geological question has been answered by a team of researchers who uncovered a hydrothermal field ...

Researchers have uncovered an unexpectedly large and tectonically controlled hydrothermal vent field around Milos Island. A ...

Destruction of key hydrothermal vents by deep-sea mining could have knock-on impacts for vent fields hundreds of kilometers away, suggests a new paper published in Ecology and Evolution. The study, ...

The hydrothermal vents far beneath the Pacific Ocean erupt with scorching fluids loaded with chemicals that could kill most ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Field studies at a hydrothermal vent system where all life was snuffed out by a massive undersea volcanic eruption reveal that these habitats can be repopulated in a matter of months ...

Strange conditions in the murkiest depths of the ocean have led to the evolution of weird-looking animals that sometimes look like dicks but are, impressively, able to thrive in uniquely severe ...

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The lack of sunlight on the ocean floor forces deep-sea fish to contend with frigid temperatures, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t learned how to cope. New research published in the journal ...

ABSTRACTTectonic and volcanic processes that drive hydrothermal fluid flow and influence its chemistry also regulate the transfer of energy to hydrothermal vent ecosystems. Chemoautotrophic bacteria ...

Scientists have found evidence of hydrothermal vents on the seafloor near Antarctica, formerly a blank spot on the map for researchers wanting to learn more about seafloor formation and the bizarre ...

Research teams from the Ocean Exploration Trust, the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galapagos National Park Directorate have discovered that some species of skate incubate their eggs in deep-sea ...